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    Which Monkey Island has the smallest number of monkeys?

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    8 hours ago, ThunderPeel2001 said:


    What if someone sailed with their pet chimp from the Eastern hemisphere?

     

    The chimp would have eaten their face off in the third week and the ship never would have made it, as of all the great apes they're known to be the worst with a compass.

     

    7 hours ago, BaronGrackle said:

    Anxious Ape - not a monkey

    Bobbing Babboon - monkey

    Charging Chimp - not a monkey

    Drunken Monkey - monkey

    Gimpy Gibbon - not a monkey

     

    THREE-FIFTHS OF THE MONKEY KOMBAT STANCES ARE ACTUALLY APE KOMBAT!!

     

    This brings up a great point which my previous post accidentally obfuscated: chimps, orangutans, gorillas, and bonobos are the *great* apes (along with humans and Bigfeets), but there are also the lesser apes of the gibbon family (including the siamang). My point is that...shit, I actually don't think I had one.

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    Which Monkey Island has the smallest number of monkeys?

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    39 minutes ago, Scummbuddy said:

    Sam and Max: Hit The Road had the most Bigfoots... Bigfeets??

     

    It's probably "Bigfeets".

    I think it's probably fair to say that Hit the Road has the highest number of non-human primates in the non-MI LucasArts canon. Unless we're counting Wookiees? ...Christ, we're not, are we?

     

    EDIT: No, damn it, we can't go making that statement definitively! There were a significant number of monkeys running around in Infernal Machine, and I think Desktop Adventures may have had some as well. Wheels within wheels, fires within fires...how deep does the mystery go???

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    PC vs. … Switch? (What will be your way of playing ReMI?)

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    7 hours ago, Vainamoinen said:

     

    Let's ... give other forumites the opportunity to keep some cans of worms tightly shut. I'm trying to keep this short, but I will fail. 🥴

     

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    1. I never used Steam in my life, and always pointed at the quasi-monopoly that has taken over PC games distribution almost completely. Making a PC is a complex matter, but Valve doesn't make PCs, like Microsoft makes the Xbox or Sony the PlayStation, hence the cut of the platform shouldn't be that great and consolidation of sales on that one platform would eventually be to the detriment of PC games culture as a whole. Well, that was my reasoning for over ten years, before February 24th at least. I choose not to buy from Steam. I am aware that may eventually mean no more PC games for me.
    2. I do not and will never judge anybody for buying games from any platform including Valve's Steam. I don't even judge the streaming dudettes and dudes. I'm aware like none other that PC gaming today is near synonymous with using the Steam platform. Imagine I feel the prick of a needle every time Steam gets another game as a factual PC exclusive, that's how aware I am.
    3. GOG doesn't have an 'odious' nature any more than Valve does. Marcin Iwiński himself is a pretty cool and, let's call him "woke" for lack of a better word, guy. I am absolutely certain that Mr. Newell is an equally cool dude. Ethical production in late stage capitalism and so on.
    4. Valve just retained a better public image even though being a mega corporation. If Valve got the same kind of shit from customers for not doing Half Life 3 as e.g. Ubisoft for their on/off/on/off/on/off development of Beyond Good & Evil 2, they'd probably stop making games altogether.
    5. Similarly, the Devotion hickup exemplifies how exempt Valve is from criticism. Valve just straight up deleted the game, customers accepted it. GOG announced the game, made the fucking effort to be the right rebels for once and - probably for the first time in their business - felt China's icy cold squeezing hand on their throats. In shock, they retracted. And bam, shitstorm. They did get a whole lot of twitter flak from Chinese accounts before, so they could actually truthfully say those "gamers" were there that called for cancelling the release. They folded, but they never had a choice. China's influence is fucking absurd and they have every opportunity to censor especially American media wholesale. China made Valve fold immediately, GOG/CDPR poked the bear with a stick, but it was never in doubt they'd eventually have to run.
    6. The higher ups on GOG/CDPR make a lot of crappy decisions, as one does when you're a higher up. GOG tried a "hands off" policy for their forums, which may have been great until 2014, but dumped the whole community in the trash come 2014.
    7. GOG's confusion with the new situation was exemplified by their ever changing community managers with vastly different approaches to keeping the community at bay. The g*merg*te thread was going on for hundreds and hundreds of pages, then was closed by a new community manager named Fables. But Fables was ripped to shreds after the community found out she didn't have a dick, therefore couldn't be a gamer. The thread was later reopened, I think, but people didn't post in it much longer. In came Linko as one of the many community managers, a dude with a fairly fine attitude towards moderating the forum. He threw out the reactionary assholes for a bit, and they accepted it, because hey, he had a dick. Unfortunately he bothsided the whole thing in public statements and was wholly incapable of also doing GOG's social media shit. He co-opted a trans hashtag and tweeted gamergate references (back then I didn't, but now I actually do believe he didn't know what he was doing). The suits threw him out. He still haunts their forum to this day, which is ... odd.
    8. At present, I feel that they're really making an effort. Political discussions are now off limits, and hear ye hear ye the present moderators understand how the political elements pervade the discussion of pop culture, which is why they recently even closed a Rings of Power 'discussion' thread. I got a little conk on the head by the new mods as well, wholly understood why, and with the removal of downvotes I think the community has a fighting chance again. I started posting there again as soon as the downvotes were out.
    9. The community is still fairly reactionary and a whole lot of work lies before the new community managers. They had their Pride month sale, I am really certain that they meant it, and they of course had the Pride month sale thread swarmed with fucking nazis, I mean legitimate and civil critics of modern LGBTQ+ culture. I hope it's not way too late for them to learn the new ways of the internet.

     

     

    I'll move on after this because we're getting way off topic, just wanted to say I 1000% respect and understand your reasons for staying away from Steam and hope I didn't come off as trying to argue/dismiss them; I was just explaining my own aversion to patronizing GOG given a series of decisions over a period of years that soured me on their public-facing image. (Also, AFAIK Steam didn't pull Devotion outside of China--Red Candle pulled it themselves to edit out the "offending material" and then, for reasons that I've never seen made public, it never went back up. Assuming there was some behind-the-scenes stuff that was never disclosed which may well have come from Valve, but all we can do is speculate.)

     

    Anyway. I have a Switch so that seems like a good place to play the game.

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    PC vs. … Switch? (What will be your way of playing ReMI?)

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    I certainly don't think Valve is any better than CDProjekt, but it always seemed like CDPR embraced and welcomed the reactionary assholes on their platform in a wink-nudge sort of way that got to be too much for me to stomach. (Did they ever lock or delete the "Gamergate Updates" thread in their general forum? It sure was there for a long time.) The last straw for me was trying to claim that "many messages from gamers" were behind the self-created PR disaster that was their cowardly Devotion about-face; it read to me like a pathetic, transparent, hail-Mary attempt to blow the "the gamers" dogwhistle so those jagoffs would circle the wagons for them. And it didn't even fool *them*. I definitely don't have any love for Valve or Steam, and I wouldn't advocate supporting one or the other; if ReMI was a GOG exclusive I'd almost certainly swallow my distaste and buy it there. Considering what's required to even make a computer, the mere act of owning one cancels out any good a boycott of one or the other online game store might put into the world (imo). In the end I just flat out don't like CDPR very much, so I don't go to their playground. For others it's the other way around, and I both get and respect that.

    Which Monkey Island has the smallest number of monkeys?

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    I feel like until and unless it's contradicted by ReMI the only sporting thing is to accept at face value--for the purposes of the thread, of course--EMI's assertion that Jojo Sr. never left that totem pole. Elaine's wedding monkey must therefore be a different (more robustly-tailed) simian, and in no way should my apparently-irreversible vote for MI2 be seen as influencing this view.

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    PC vs. … Switch? (What will be your way of playing ReMI?)

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    On 8/31/2022 at 10:49 AM, Vainamoinen said:

    Yup, absolutely. Season 2 still maintains a whopping 5/5 stars verified owners' rating, so if GOG just got off their fucking asses and banned non owner reviews ... LE SIGH.

    Personally I don't think this is an oversight--I think allowing it is intentional. At best CD Projekt has tended to look the other way with the crowd who do this; at worst they have a history of soft-catering to them. 

    Which Monkey Island has the smallest number of monkeys?

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    27 minutes ago, BaronGrackle said:

    Now. Can we just get confirmation that, apart from Murray, these other skulls are from monkeys named Jojo?

     

    I'll go one further--have we seen any evidence to this point that Murray was not, prior to his necrofication, a monkey named Jojo? Note that he says, on his introduction in CMI, "You may call me Murray," not "My name is Murray" [emphasis added]. I think it's entirely possible he was attempting to conceal his true place in.....THE CONSPIRACY!!!!

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    Which Monkey Island has the smallest number of monkeys?

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    22 minutes ago, Torbjörn Andersson said:

     

    Not if you trust the back of the Escape From Monkey Island box. Though for whatever reason, the promise of "more monkeys than the three previous Monkey games combined!" was toned down for the PlayStation 2 version.

     

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    Even as a preteen I remember thinking the marketing listing "more monkeys than ever!" as some sort of selling point was really bizarre. Like, did they think that to this point I'd been playing these games because of the monkeys?

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    Which Monkey Island has the smallest number of monkeys?

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    1 hour ago, JacquesSparkyTail said:

    All i know is that out of the 4 named monkeys in the franchise, 3 of them are called jojo

    OBJECTION! There are AT LEAST 5 named monkeys in the franchise--Jojo (MI1), unrelated Jojo (MI2), Jojo Jr. (EMI), Timmy (EMI), and Jacques (TMI). The series' JPI (Jojo Percentage Index) has just dropped from 75% to 60%, and I have a feeling it may drop further!

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    Which Monkey Island has the smallest number of monkeys?

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    3 minutes ago, Marius said:

    Isn‘t Secret the right answer? There‘s just the one opening the Monkey head gate, right?

    in Tales, there is one on the boat at the beginning… and one in the Laboratory…

    Hmmm…
     

    Curse has probably the most Monkeys, right? Don‘t forget the ones in the theater!

    I think the ones in the theater are LeChimp's crew, so that would be counting them twice.

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    Return to Monkey Island

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    4 hours ago, KestrelPi said:

     

    Sol-fa syllables are relative, so it's any note depending on what key we're in. But if you assume the first skull struck (Mi) is in tune then the Re and Fa also work relative to that Mi (they're not completely in tune, Murray sounds to me a bit like he's in between two notes on first listen, but... close enough to make it work, probably)

     

    On the puzzle itself...

     

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    Presumably we'll find a Do, Sol, La, and Ti skulls too, arrange them in their proper order, and have to play a particular tune in order to achieve something

     

     

    Clearly the solution will be ReMi

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    Return to Monkey Island

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    8 hours ago, TimeGentleman said:

     

    OHHHH, I never got that! Yeah, that is a bit of a shame, especially as it doesn't really work as dialogue if taken at face value.

    Funny you should say that--back when it first came out and the community consensus developed that it was a Myst dig, I thought it was a massive reach because it seemed like a logical exchange for the two of them to have--the Welshman's tired of being cursed to wander the fog, Guybrush says something perfectly oblivious, the Welshman responds with disdain. But I was also a child and hadn't played Myst, so my brain was probably willing to slap any rationalization on there for it to make sense.

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    Return to Monkey Island

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    5 minutes ago, TimeGentleman said:

     

    Curse Of Monkey Island bags on Myst? I don't remember that!

    The Flying Welshman mentions how tired he is of looking at mist all the time, and Guybrush says "I like mist! It's pretty!" To which the Welshman says "Well of course mist is *pretty.* But hoo boy, is it dull." 

     

    Nothing about it was ever *confirmed* as a Myst dig that I know of, but that's how it's usually read.

    Return to Monkey Island

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    My guess based on their level of prominence is that that's the "Captain Madison" referred to in the marketing materials as the leader of the "new guard" on Melee Island.

     

    Regarding the hair/hat situation, yeah, I think you maaaay be doing the Jojo fan thing. I'm hard-pressed to see that as one big hat/hair mass--from the start I've been reading it as a big pompadour with an itsy-bitsy pirate-hat perched in front (or possibly a pirate-hat-style tiara).

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